Genius
means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
--
William James
A
truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
-- Gerald G. Jampolsky
The
creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play
instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects
it loves.
-- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
"But,
if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself."
-- Carl Gustav Jung quotes (Swiss psychiatrist,1 875-1961)
"Creativity
is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope.
You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone
else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and
pieces into an enticing new possibility."
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Creativity,
as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find
out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh
at what we normally take for granted.
-- George Kneller
Creative
activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil
are located in the same individual.
-- Arthur Koestler
The
more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
-- Arthur
Koestler
The
essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
-- Edwin H. Land
Creativity
is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edwin H. Land
The
creative adult is the child who has survived."
-- Ursula K. le Guin
It
is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and
hope.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
Creativity
is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
--Theodore Levitt
When
all think alike, then no one is thinking.
-- Walter Lippman
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New opinions are always
suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not
already common. -- John
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Creativity
can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality,
overcomes everything.
-- George Lois
"There
is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring
to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source,
you will truly have defeated age."
-- Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress,
b.1934)
Creativity
is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is
found.
-- James Russell Lowell
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Music
has always been transnational;
-- Yo-Yo
Ma
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A
will finds a way.
-- Orison Swett Marden
"Creativity
takes courage."
-- Henri Matisse
Creativity
arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like
the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential
to the work of art or poem.
-- Rollo May
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“We
need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community
around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet’s survival.
Compassion must be translated into action.” -- Natasha
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The
world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything
else.
-- Harold R. McAlindon
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"I've
always felt that music finds its natural place within people and should not be
restricted to a specific physical place. It is vital that today's musicians become
proactive in advocating for music and the arts." -- Midori
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"Making
the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely
simple, that's creativity."
--Charles Mingus
You
share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be
shared. -- Michael Moore
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The
most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
-- Stephen Nachmanovitch